Program Documentation
These programs are available in ~rct/bin.
You can find an alphabetic list here.
You may also want to check on some programs that are
called Procedures.
Device Servers
The most basic level of the observatory is the device servers.
Here is an listing of server keywords.
The protocol is discussed here.
Each of the observatory devices has a server program associated with it.
The observatory functions are invoked by the tx command.
These are described below.
- rtel- new telescope server
- rleach- CCD camera server
- rmanta- guide camera server
- rstage- stage and filter wheel server
- rslit- slit and weather server
- rtemps- telescope temperature server
Other daemons that are fired up by startnet
- telco- observatory master controller
- weatherd - weather recording daemon
- bulld - Bulletin D server (UT)
Some helpful programs for accessing the servers are:
- rmsem- script to remove semaphores
- startnet- server starter script
- tserver- server concatenating program
- tx- server message transmitter program
Observatory Control Programs
- closedown - shutdown the observatory
- insgen- telescope scheduler program
- keepopen - keep the slit open
- openup - prepare the observatory to observe
- show - log and process display
- tin- telco communicator script
- weatherpause - temporary observatory hiatus
CCD Control Programs
- image- CCD imaging program
- mkid- FITS filestem generator program
Filter Wheel and Guider Control Programs
- acquire- star finder script
- guide- star locking script
- pfilter- position filter by name
- guidestar- guidestar selector script
guimage- guider image acquisition program
use image with camera=guider - setstage- calculates coordinates from stage position
Calibration Scripts
See also Procedures.
- focus - telescope focus program
- focusdip - telescope focus program by pictures
- focanl - focus image analyzer
Weather Programs
Custom Astronomical,Image Processing and Utility Programs
Look in here for programs that you find in scripts and my not recognize.
Note: not all the programs below are linked to
~rct/bin.
RCT Index